This was something I picked up after seeing it on a book blog – I just wish I remembered which book blog. I almost didn’t read Anna and the French Kiss because of the damn cover. It looks a little to YA pretty girl romance-y for me. I decided I’d give it a try after reading the first couple of chapters over TW’s shoulder one night – I got sucked into the idea of a story about a girl whose parents send her to Paris to attend the School of Americas in Paris for her senior year. She doesn’t want to go. She wants to stay home. In Atlanta. With her friends. Doing normal things. Watching her brother.
Once she arrives, she starts out a little too timid for me. She doesn’t leave the school for a week. She doesn’t order hot food at the cafeteria for ages because she doesn’t speak French. Wah. Poor thing. Your situation is what you make of it.
Good thing she found nice people who forced her to go out, I guess. I’d have liked it better if she’d have grown her own backbone and made her way like a strong young woman but whatevs.
It’s not that I didn’t like her friends – I did. It’s not that I didn’t like the guy she falls for – I did. All of those things could have happened with Anna being just a wee bit stronger and a wee bit more self-sufficient. I’d like to think young women who read this are going to read Anna’s character and roll their damn eyes at her wimpyness – while still enjoying the cute love story.